How to Play MXF with VLC on Mac and Windows?

Summary: These days I’ve been trying to figure out how to get VLC to recognize MXF recordings, how to play MXF with VLC on Mac and Windows, but there is no-go. Can anyone kindly shed some light on this issue? 

 

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Material Exchange Format (MXF) is an open-standard container or a wrapper format for digital audio and video media. There are many camcorders use MXF format, like Sony XDCAM series, Panasonic P2 series and Canon XF series. Unfortunately MXF is not an easy format to handle both on Windows and Mac. In this article, we aim to offer you an easy way to help you play MXF with VLC media player freely. 

VLC media player is the most successful free open source cross-platform multimedia player in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. There are still many people encountered problems when playing MXF with VLC on Mac and Windows. 

"I am using VLC to play some MXF files. The files play fine but it seems I cannot seek. Whenever I try to click to a position on the scrollbar the video will freeze and jump to the beginning. I am wondering is this a known issue?" 

If you tried to play MXF with VLC on Mac and Windows, you may probably run into the same situations as mentioned above. To be able to make MXF files viewable on a Mac or a Windows PC through VLC, you are suggested to transcode MXF to a format that is suitable for your media player. This requires third party software like Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac. (Windows version) 

  

Other Download: 
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.com/mxf-converter-mac/ 
- AppStore Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pavtube-mxf-converter/id502807634?mt=12 
- Amazon Download: http://www.amazon.com/Pavtube-MXF-Converter-Mac-Download/dp/B00QID8K28 
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-MXF-Converter/3000-2194_4-76177789.html 



Below is the simple guide about how to play MXF with VLC on Mac and Windows. 

Step 1: Backup your MXF files to hard drive. Install and launch MXF Video Converter for Mac. Drag and drop MXF files to the software. You can import multiple files at once thanks to "Add from folder" button. 

 

Step 2: Click the drop-down list in the format line to get the format box. Then choose "HD Video>>H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)" as output format. 

 

Step 3: You can adjust the parameters by clicking "Settings" button, choose the resolution, bitrate, frame rate and etc. as you want. 

Step 4: You can preview to check the final result. Once you are satisfied with it, click the "Convert" button to start converting MXF files to H.264 HD Video MP4 for playing with VLC flawlessly. It will take you a little while. 

Conclusion: Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click "Open" to get the output videos. Now, you can play MXF with VLC on Mac and Windows without any issues. 

Further Reading: 

• Import P2 MXF Files to Avid Media Composer 8 for Editing on Mac 
• Good Advice on Playing XC10 4K MXF on Yosemite/Windows 10 
• Panasonic AJ-PX800 H.264/AVC MXF to DaVinci Resolve 11 
• Ikegami GFCAM HDS-V10 MXF to Avid MC Workflow 
• Top 4 Best MXF Converter for Mac Review 2015 
• Get Premiere Pro CC working with MXF from Panasonic AJ-PX800 
• Guide on Editing Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 MXF in FCP X 
• Ingest Sony PMW-300K1 Raw MXF Files to Final Cut Pro X 
• Canon XF105/XF100 MXF to iMovie Workflow on Mac

Source: http://bestvideoking.blogspot.com/2015/03/play-mxf-with-vlc.html 

Encode MXF to MOV, MPG, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV on Mac/PC

What is MXF?
MXF (Material eXchange Format) is a video container format targeted at professional video and broadcast applications established by Pro-MPEG Forum and SMPTE. It may contain compressed or uncompressed audio and video, and frame-based metadata, include timecode. Videos in MXF may be compressed in MPEG-2, DNxHD or any other formats.

Why Convert MXF to AVI, MOV, MP4, etc?
For most camcorder owners, they usually have a headache of the video format from their camcorders produce. For MXF camcorders like Panasonic AG-HVX200, Sony PMW-350kit, Canon XF300, etc which produces MXF or P2 MXF files that can’t be compatible for most players or editing software. In other words, it is so necessary for us to encode MXF/P2MXF to those common video formats on Mac/PC, for example: MOV, MPG, MP4, AVI or FLV.

Then, how to convert MXF to MOV, AVI, MP4, etc?
iMixMXF/Pavtube MXF MultiMixer is just the best conversion for converting MXF to MOV for editing in Premiere Pro CC and FCP, MXF to MP4 for playing on various players and devices like iPhone, iPod, iPad and iTunes, MXF to AVI for storage on hard drive, MXF to WMV, MXF to FLV, etc.

The recently upgraded MXF Converter can encode MXF to H.265, m3u8, etc. Besides, it has unique multi-track preserving feature or can get your MXF footage deinterlaced by default if you didn’t choose multi-track format.

Step-by-step guide on how to convert MXF to MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc on Mac/Windows (Here are the details for Mac user):

          

Other Download: 
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.com/imixmxf-mac/
- Amazon Download: http://www.amazon.com/Pavtube-Studio-iMixMXF-Download/dp/B00QI7MY4Y
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-iMixMXF/3000-2194_4-76171460.html

Step 1: Download Download and install the corresponding version. Click “Add video” on the main interface to load MXF files to the program. You can also drag the files to the program’s window list directly. This program can also support the batch video clips.



Step 2. Select suitable MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etcas you need for Mac/Windows. If you are seeking the common ones, just go to the ‘HD Video’ to find the formats you need. While for those advanced users who wanna trancode the MXF files with multi-tracks preserved, we suggest you to choose MP4/Prores/AVI/MOV from‘Multi-track Video’.

Tips: AVI Players for Mac | MP4 Players for Mac/Windows



Step 3: If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 

Step 4:When you get ready for all preparation work, click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported files for Window/Mac. 

If you still have problems in this process, welcome to leave us comments here.

Tips: If you want to burn various MXF videos to DVD on Mac or Windows, just need pay $34.9(Saving $29.1) to get DVD Creator for Mac or Windows.

Further reading: 

• XAVC codec compatibility/workflow with Premiere Pro CC on Mac
• How to Convert Any Video to M3U8 for Streaming to Apple TV
• Load Canon XC10 XF-AVC MXF to FCP X for Editing
• Import Sony XAVC MXF to Premiere Pro CC on Mac Yosemite
• Change FLV to M3U8 format for Playing with QuickTime on Mac